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Will Critics Choice Awards preview top winners at Oscars again?

The Broadcast Film Critics Assn. will announce their 2014 nominations on Monday, December 15. Our predictions center is now open and ready for you to make your picks in 17 Critics’ Choice Award categories.

The Critics’ Choice Awards have proven to be the most accurate precursor to the Oscars. The 250 members of the BFCA have predicted 13 of the past 18 Best Picture Oscar winners as well as 13 Best Actor, 10 Best Actress, 10 Best Supporting Actor and 12 Supporting Actress Academy Awards champs.

Last year, they previewed all of those categories: “12 Years a Slave” as Best Picture and the four acting winners of Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto (“Dallas Buyers Club”), Cate Blanchett (“Blue Jasmine”), and Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”).

As for Oscar nominations, the BFCA foresaw eight out of the nine Best Picture candidates in 2013 (only missing on “Philomena” and 16 of the 20 acting nominees. The four they failed to foresee: Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill (“The Wolf of Wall Street”), Amy Adams (“American Hustle”), and Sally Hawkins (“Blue Jasmine”).

Now is the time to make your predictions for the Critics’ Choice Awards nominees.

Along with those kudos, you can also make your picks for the Oscars, Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and many reality shows.

To get started, CLICK HERE or scroll down and make your first prediction using our easy drag-and-drop menu. Don’t worry, you can keep changing your predictions right up until the end. But we urge you not to wait till then.

Why? Because your predictions will factor into our official racetrack odds that are pored over by industry heavyweights and the stars themselves.

To enter your predictions, make sure you are logged into your Gold Derby account or register for a free account via Facebook, Twitter or Google.

After logging in, click on the “Predictions” button found at the top-right of every page. That will bring you to a list of every event currently being predicted at Gold Derby.

Click on any box to bring up that event, then scroll down to start making your predictions.